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  • Portugal’s Global Cinema
    Mariana Liz
    Portuguese cinema has become increasingly prominent on the international film festival circuit, proving the country’s size belies its cultural impact. From the prestige of directors Manoel de Oliveira, Pedro Costa and Miguel Gomes, to box-office hit La Cage Doree, aspects of Portuguese national cinema are widely visible although the output is comparatively small compared to Eur...
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    50,79 €

  • Analyzing Film
    James R Russo
    Analyzing Film: A Student Casebook is a film textbook containing fifteen essays about sixteen historically and artistically significant films made between 1920 and 1990. This casebook is geographically diverse, with sixteen countries represented: Germany, Russia, Spain, France, the United States, Denmark, Japan, India, England, Italy, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, Hungary, Aust...
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    67,49 €

  • School Story
    David Aitchison
    The School Story: Young Adult Narratives in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the work of contemporary writers, filmmakers, and critics who, reflecting on the realm of school experience, help to shape dominant ideas of school. The creations discussed are mostly stories for children and young adults. David Aitchison looks at serious novels for teens including Laurie Halse Anders...
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    158,51 €

  • School Story
    David Aitchison
    The School Story: Young Adult Narratives in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the work of contemporary writers, filmmakers, and critics who, reflecting on the realm of school experience, help to shape dominant ideas of school. The creations discussed are mostly stories for children and young adults. David Aitchison looks at serious novels for teens including Laurie Halse Anders...
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    50,35 €

  • For No Reason at All
    Jeffrey A Hinkelman
    The years following the signing of the Armistice saw a transformation of traditional attitudes regarding military conflict as America attempted to digest the enormity and futility of the First World War. During these years popular film culture in the United States created new ways of addressing the impact of the war on both individuals and society. Filmmakers with direct experi...
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    50,09 €

  • For No Reason at All
    Jeffrey A Hinkelman
    The years following the signing of the Armistice saw a transformation of traditional attitudes regarding military conflict as America attempted to digest the enormity and futility of the First World War. During these years popular film culture in the United States created new ways of addressing the impact of the war on both individuals and society. Filmmakers with direct experi...
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    158,25 €

  • La cinta ancha
    Fabiola Reyna Gutierrez
    Este libro es una radiografía del sector cinematográfico peruano y las brechas de género que existen en él. A través de un análisis minucioso de la producción y exhibición cinematográfica peruana, el acceso a fondos públicos y la percepción de les cineastes sobre las desigualdades de género y hostigamiento sexual en el sector, Fabiola Reyna muestra el estado de la participación...
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    10,40 €

  • Brittany Murphy
    Peter Shelley
    Brittany Murphy (1977-2009) was an American film, television, and stage actress, singer, voice artist, and film producer. Beginning her career, 1995’s Clueless proved to be her breakthrough film; notable roles followed in Girl, Interrupted (1999), Don’t Say a Word (2001), 8 Mile (2002), and Just Married (2003). Despite the lead in Uptown Girls (2003), the production of The Rame...
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    50,38 €

  • Deconstructing Will Smith
    Willie Tolliver
    Acclaimed actor and rap artist Will Smith has achieved a level of Hollywood fame rarely attained by a Black celebrity. Early in his career, Smith aspired to be the world’s most famous movie star and being named the world’s top film attraction in 2008, fulfilled his goal. While his rise to a place of worldwide prominence and cultural relevance has made him iconic, his accomplish...
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    58,59 €

  • Race and the Suburbs in American Film
    Merrill Schleier
    Explores how suburban space and the body are racialized in American film. ...
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    41,91 €

  • Curtains of Light
    George Toles
    Provides a new way of thinking about film’s relation to theatre. ...
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    43,16 €

  • Encountering the Impossible
    Alexander Sergeant
    The first academic explanation for how spectators use their imaginations as part of the experience and appreciation of popular fantasy filmmaking. ...
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    43,32 €

  • Perpetual Movement
    Neil Badmington
    Offers both a production history and a close analysis, with a chapter for each of the film’s eleven shots. ...
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    42,18 €

  • The Godfather and Sicily
    Raymond Angelo Belliotti
    Offers a distinctive interpretation of The Godfather as a novel and film sequence. ...
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    40,89 €

  • Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema
    Sheds light on emergent Latin America cinema that addresses the politics of environmental destruction, the unevenness of climate change consequences, and new ways of visualizing the world beyond the human. ...
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    42,88 €

  • Luchino Visconti and the Alchemy of Adaptation
    Brendan Hennessey
    Examines the place of book-to-film adaptations by one of Italy’s most famous postwar film directors. ...
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    42,01 €

  • A Voyage with Hitchcock
    Murray Pomerance
    Extensive meditations on the theme of the voyage in six Hitchcock films: Psycho, The 39 Steps, The Birds, Dial M for Murder, Rich and Strange, and Suspicion. ...
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    42,88 €

  • Seeing Symphonically
    Erica Stein
    Looks at how a group of aesthetically innovative independent films contested and imagined alternatives to urban planning in midcentury New York. ...
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    41,87 €

  • Was It Yesterday?
    Matthew Leggatt
    Explores how nostalgia operates in contemporary US film and television. ...
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    41,90 €

  • The History of American Literature on Film
    Thomas Leitch
    From William Dickson’s Rip Van Winkle films (1896) to Baz Luhrmann’s big-budget production of The Great Gatsby (2013) and beyond, cinematic adaptations of American literature participate in a rich and fascinating history. Unlike previous studies of American literature and film, which emphasize particular authors like Edith Wharton and Nathaniel Hawthorne, particular texts like ...
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    50,03 €

  • Stories from the Fireplace
    Tekletsadik Belachew
    This book is an interdisciplinary theological exploration of Haile Gerima’s cinema, an Ethiopian filmmaker and storyteller who successfully translated African folkloric orality and wove other indigenous art forms into the language of cinema. Gerima’s five decades legacy of Pan-African cinema embodies ’symbolic resistance’ against Afro-pessimistic and stereotypical mis/disrepres...
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    59,35 €

  • Let’s Go Stag!
    Dan Erdman
    For much of the 20th century, the underground pornography industry - made up of amateurs and hobbyists who created hardcore, explicit 'stag films' - went about its business hounded by reformers and law enforcement, from local police departments all the way up to the FBI. Rumors of this illicit activity circulated and became the stuff of urban myth, but this period of pornograph...
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    154,37 €

  • Soundies and the Changing Image of Black Americans on Screen
    Susan Delson
    In the 1940s, folks at bars and restaurants would gather around a Panoram movie machine to watch three-minute films called Soundies, precursors to today’s music videos. This history was all but forgotten until the digital era brought Soundies to phones and computer screens--including a YouTube clip starring a 102-year-old Harlem dancer watching her younger self perform in Sound...
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    121,12 €

  • Soundies and the Changing Image of Black Americans on Screen
    Susan Delson
    In the 1940s, folks at bars and restaurants would gather around a Panoram movie machine to watch three-minute films called Soundies, precursors to today’s music videos. This history was all but forgotten until the digital era brought Soundies to phones and computer screens--including a YouTube clip starring a 102-year-old Harlem dancer watching her younger self perform in Sound...
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    38,70 €

  • Profit Margins
    Jeremy Groskopf
    Between the advent of print advertising and the dawn of radio came cinema ads. These ads, aimed at a captive theater audience, became a symbol of the developing binary between upper-class film consumption and more consumerist media.In Profit Margins, Jeremy Groskopf examines how the ad industry jockeyed for direct advertisement space in American motion pictures. In fact, advert...
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    121,40 €

  • Profit Margins
    Jeremy Groskopf
    Between the advent of print advertising and the dawn of radio came cinema ads. These ads, aimed at a captive theater audience, became a symbol of the developing binary between upper-class film consumption and more consumerist media.In Profit Margins, Jeremy Groskopf examines how the ad industry jockeyed for direct advertisement space in American motion pictures. In fact, advert...
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    42,44 €

  • Mexico Unmanned
    Samanta Ordóñez
    Demonstrates how transhistorical myths of masculinity are both perpetuated and challenged in recent Mexican cinema. ...
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    121,82 €

  • Behind the Kaiju Curtain
    Norman England
    'One of the most entertaining yet informative books you will ever read'ーEd Godziszewski, author of Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to KurosawaNorman England’s gutsy and insightful stories will do more than just entertain. This is the first and only book in English to take you on a deep dive into the Japanese film industry. You will join well-known directors, cast, a...
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    42,08 €

  • Across Texts
    Keith Reader
    The essays grouped together here reflect a career-long preoccupation with aspects of modern French culture. These range from the canonical (no French or indeed European film-maker is more universally admired than Renoir; few screen actresses have aroused such strong feelings as Arletty), by way of the ascetically philosophical (whereof it would be difficult to find a more strik...
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    138,91 €

  • Luxury, Sensation and the Moving Image
    Alice Blackhurst
    In recent years, the embrace of ’slow;’ sensuous and durational forms of cinema and the moving image registers desires to immerse in phenomenological experiences of artworks as potential antidotes to our information-saturated, techno-capitalist age. Exploring shifts away from ownership, accumulation and possessive acquisition of the object towards more experiential, immaterial ...
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    139,18 €